Every CW-complex is a classifying space for proper bundles

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(99)00073-7MaRDI QIDQ5939199zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ian J. Leary, Brita E. A. Nucinkis

Publication date 21 November 2001

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-9383(99)00073-7

zbMATH Keywords

\(G\)-CW-complexclassifying spacecontractible groupproper action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Equivariant homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55P91) Homotopy theory (55P99) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

Review text

For a discrete group \(G\), a \(G\)-CW-complex is a CW-complex upon which \(G\) acts by permuting the cells. A \(G\)-CW-complex is said to be proper if each cell stabilizer is finite. In the paper under review it is proved that for any connected CW-complex \(X\), there exists a discrete group \(G_X\) and a countable, proper \(G_X\)-CW-complex \(E_X\) such that the orbit space \(E_X/G_X\) is homotopy equivalent to \(X\). Furthermore, for each finite subgroup \(H\subset G_X\), the \(H\)-fixed point subcomplex \(E^H_X=\{x\in E^H_X \mid hx=x\), \(\forall h\in H\}\) is contractible.

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